Strangers in a Strange Land
Subtitle: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: February 21, 2017
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781627796743
Description: A vivid critique of American life today and a guide to how Christians―and particularly Catholics--can live their faith vigorously, and even with hope, in a post-Christian public square.

From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes Strangers in a Strange Land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholicism and Christianity in the United States. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. And this new reality is unlikely to be reversed. The reasons include, but aren't limited to, economic changes that widen the gulf between rich and poor; problems in the content and execution of the education system; the decline of traditional religious belief among young people; the shift from organized religion among adults to unbelief or individualized spiritualities; changes in legal theory and erosion in respect for civil and natural law; significant demographic shifts; profound new patterns in sexual behavior and identity; the growth of federal power and its disregard for religious rights; the growing isolation and elitism of the leadership classes; and the decline of a sustaining sense of family and community.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Epigraph; label: 1.
title: Resident Aliens; label: 2.
title: Of Blessed Memory; label: 3.
title: Why Can't It Be Like It Was; label: 4.
title: The Topography of Flatland; label: 5.
title: Love Among the Eloi; label: 6.
title: Nothing but the Truth; label: 7.
title: Darkness at Noon; label: 8.
title: Hope and Its Daughters; label: 9.
title: Rules for Radicals; label: 10.
title: Repair My House; label: 11.
title: A Letter to Diognetus; label: 12.
title: The City of Man; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgements